Hello, I'm 17, and a junior in high school. I enjoy woodturning, and I wanted to make my mom a vase. I made it out of bloodwood, and I'm proud of how it shines. AMA
Finally made a handle for my 3/4 bowl gouge. I've had this bit of maple set aside for a couple years now. 3/4 Robert sorby 29.5 inches overall danish oil and beeswax finish. Excited to put it to use.
Figured I’d give it another go at the wood and stone combo. This one is an unknown burl base with a walnut lid, and a rather impressive Lake Superior Agate inlaid into the knob. This one measures in at 3.5” tall with a 4.5” diameter. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ll be making quite a few more of these.
A member of the woodworking club I'm in brought a set of nested boxes to a recent meet up. I liked the idea so I made my own. Was a fun challenge to get them all to fit without rattling. I made each box from a different wood. There wasn't enough room to fit a final box so I took some scrap silver from an old broken ring and made a tiny silver pill.
Hello everyone, I am a weekend woodworker, and I routinely bite off more than I can chew. I bought a lathe and now I’m realizing that I don’t have the time for it. Does anyone who has experience selling something like this give me some pointers. I’m not on Facebook but I’m wondering if their marketplace might be the best bet. Thanks in advance for the help
... but my husband says it's too nice to put in the garden. Next time I will turn an ugly one. :P
Red cedar bowl with a tulipwood footed base, finished with tung oil.
I was gifted a nice blank of madrone from friends in Oregon and it sat and sat mostly because I feel guilty using a nice blank when I'm hoarding all this practice wood! But what fun this turned out to be- the chatoyance is gorgeous and on a whim o decided to try getting two bowls from the blank. I put solid mortis on both ends and aside from the hand sawing I decided to use instead of a parting tool( if felt like it was eating up too much of the wood, I may try this more often with smaller blanks. It certainly was less waste of a lovely piece of wood!
Any tips for how to get these spots sanded? I tried water to raise the grain and have used a small sander to go against the grain but still cant seem to get it smooth with 60 grit.
Slowly working on a rainbow eucalyptus bowl with a serious crack. If it doesn’t fly apart, it’s going to be neat. lol
2nd BOWL.— Double Bottomed, Pedestaled Fruit Bowl in Black Walnut and Sassafras finished in Clear Poly, 12” o.d , 10.5” tall, 11” I.d.
Just whipping up the wooden handles for my new Carter & Sons tools...here are two... that's mahogany with sycamore sandwiched in the middle...still thinking about what finish I'd like...I made two blanks but I'm thinking about using other woods for the rest...sorry about the perspective...the blank is 2" and the finished are 1.5"
I have been fighting back happy tears for hours now. Naturally, my mom has been a recipient of many turned pieces. She always wondered how the inside of a bowl got turned and when I offered to teach her how, SHE ACCEPTED. Now, my mom is a badass in many regards (30+ year nurse, mostly spent as the head RN at a group home for very handicapped people) but has never really been exposed to machine tools, not to mention use them.
We got to go through the WHOLE process, from picking out the pretty lumber, rough cutting to blanking size, bandsaw for kinda round and THEN the lathe.
She said she had a lot of fun and wants to make another bowl sometime.
What a day of all time. Sorry for the short video...was too busy enjoying the everloving out of the present moment. Still had to capture a bit of the magic. 🖤
Buddy of mine just cut down what he thought was boxwood bushes but I’m pretty sure this isn’t that. I’ve only ever seen box elder or cedar with any color close it this. Coming from southern Appalachia
I just start back in February. I was really excited to give a few gifts at mother's day to the mothers in my life (mom, sisters, inlaws, etc). I made these small vases and they were a big hit.
I use this 12in mulberry plate almost daily. It's going on 6months old with tried and trued finish. I wanted real world use on a finishes I was gonna put on a bunch of twice turned bowls this fall.
I have another bowl with just shellac and another with general finish. All are holding up well but this is performing the best with Shellac start to shown signs of wear.
This is a Cherry / Walnut 3-sided, 4-inch diameter box with a 45 degree twist. I’ve been incrementally increasing the diameter size, experimenting from 2.5 to 4 inches. This is probably the largest I’ll make for a while. The off axis turning seems to get exponentially more challenging as the diameter grows. But I’m pleased with the result.